BILL NUMBER: SB 2085	CHAPTERED  06/09/00

	CHAPTER   39
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JUNE 9, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   JUNE 9, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   JUNE 8, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   APRIL 13, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   APRIL 10, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Senator McPherson

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2000

   An act relating to alcoholic beverages, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 2085, McPherson.  Alcoholic beverages:  use on school grounds.
   Under existing law, unless otherwise exempted, every person who
possesses, consumes, sells, gives, or delivers to any other person,
any alcoholic beverage in or on any public schoolhouse or any of the
grounds thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
   This bill would provide an exemption from these provisions by
permitting alcoholic beverages to be served on the campus of the
Monterey Peninsula College during the period from June 15 to June 22,
2000, inclusive, in connection with the 100th anniversary of the
United States Open Golf Championship Tournament at Pebble Beach.
   The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding Section 25608 of the Business and
Professions Code or any other provision of law, alcoholic beverages
may be served on the campus of the Monterey Peninsula College during
the period from June 15 to June 22, 2000, inclusive, in connection
with the 100th anniversary of the United States Open Golf
Championship Tournament at Pebble Beach.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to provide needed funds to Monterey Peninsula College
resulting from the service of alcoholic beverages in connection with
the 100th anniversary of the United States Open Golf Tournament at
Pebble Beach in June 2000, it is necessary that this act take effect
immediately.
